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Archives for August 2017

Chicago, Overrun, Fights for the Criminals

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By June 30, 2017 in Chicago, 323 people had been killed in homicides in Chicago. That’s one more than at the same time in 2016. It had been twenty years since Chicago’s streets saw over 700 homicides, the city topped that number last year, and is on track to do so again in 2017. The […]

The Book We’ve All Been Seeking

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Do you perhaps suffer daily, as do so many millions of Americans, from high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, edema, angina, heart arrhythmia or simply grief and sadness? Please allow me to help you. Perhaps you are among the fortunate souls already acquainted with Rosemary Gladstar, the godmother of modern herbalism. Then you already […]

Republicans Have a 35-Point Edge Among White Working-Class Democrats

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What’s the biggest challenge the Democrat Party faces? Trump bashing is the easy part, thanks in no small measure to Donald Trump himself. Harder yet will be winning back voters who have slid over to the GOP, in large part due to President Trump. Trump won 62% of the vote among white voters without a […]

What You Missed Friday Night at the Newport Jazz Festival

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The Newport Jazz Festival got the party started Friday night with Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue. Shorty, aka Troy Andrews, is the grandson of Jessie Hill who is known for the classic song “Ooh Poo Pah Doo.” Shorty closed his Newport show with a get up and dance version of his funk and soul sound with “Do To Me” […]

Can America End this Tyranny?

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The former head of the CIA’s bin laden unit, Michael Scheuer wonders if Americans must take up arms and enforce the law themselves in the face of what he calls tyranny from the country’s elected representatives. He’s specifically focused on the investigation into President Trump being led by Robert Mueller. Scheuer says there’s no proof, […]

ISIS, Bleeding Cash Sells Antiquities to Survive

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With more of its oil revenue out of reach each day, ISIS is turning to alternative methods to fund its so-called caliphate. Receiving new attention in the revenue squeeze is selling stolen antiquities from Syria and Iraq. Enablers act as middle-men, buying up the looted artifacts and selling them to buyers who are willing to […]

How Tiny Switzerland Faced Down Hitler and The Nazis: Part II

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“The full extent of the Nazi threat to Switzerland during World War II has never been adequately acknowledged. The reality was that the Swiss citizenry rifles in hand, stood up to the Nazis, threatening an unacceptable loss of German blood in the event of an invasion. When the Nazis conquered France, they decreed the death […]

Richard Russell’s Rule #1

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You need to have some will-power to stick to your guns in this stock market. No one said it was going to be easy. But to allow the magic of compound interest to work for you, you have to be patient. Here is one of the great lessons I love to read over and over […]

Is the America First Coalition Breaking Apart?

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Are Neocon advisers and cabinet members taking over the Trump foreign policy agenda? After the Trump campaign prevented neocons from making the arming of Ukraine a plank in the GOP platform, bureaucrats and long-time Washington hands are slowly pushing for just that course of action. Will the Trump administration be run on America first principles, […]